Email the blog entry option

Posted by scoop on June 14th, 2010 in Blog Advertising, Business Blogging, Promotion, Tips |

By this time, almost everyone has probably heard of RSS and RSS aggregators. Maybe everyone has even used them. In any case, sometimes it is still good to give people the option to get email notifications that you have a special feature on your blog.

There are people whose aggregators are already full of so many blog entries, especially when they were quite excited in tagging all those blogs one time. It could be quite overwhelming for the person reading them. (Maybe this is also why some are only subscribed to headlines.) In any case, you could point to an option wherein people could get the special featured entries or articles via email.

Email seems to have become an integral part of people who are online most of the time. There are those who have habits of checking them at certain times of the day. The nice thing about having those special features in their inbox is that they could still read what you wrote. And who knows? They might even directly interact with you via email.

As you put that option on your blog, you could choose to have only the excerpt of your special feature so that they could have something to look forward to when they visit your blog. Aside from this use of excerpts, you should also keep in mind that you must not abuse this option so that people won’t be turned off from reading your blog. Let’s face it, sometimes people don’t always enjoy what you write but if they know that you have something they’d be able to use or maybe inspire them, they’d go back to your blog regularly. I personally don’t read Joel Spolsky’s (alpha geek) blog all the time because he sometimes seems a bit too technical but I get emails about his special featured entries which inspire me or challenge me to think things through.